Bleeding Disorders During Pregnancy

Critical Care Obstetrics
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-21435-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 199 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Bleeding Disorders During Pregnancy is a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series. It is a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises that include bleeding. The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on severe complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical–surgical complications that any patient can present, such as obstetrics, hemorrhage, hypovolemic shock, and other bleeding complications specific to pregnancy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hidalgo, Jorge

Montufar-Rueda, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Introduction
1. Physiological hematologic changes in pregnancy
2. Obstetrics hemorrhage and hypovolemic shock

Part 2 First Trimester Bleeding
3. Abortion

Part 3 Ante and intrapartum hemorrhage
4. Placental pathologies
5. Uterine rupture

Part 4 Post-Partum Hemorrhage
6. Uterine atony
7. Placenta accreta
8. Uterine inversion
9. Retained products of conception
10. Hepatic rupture

Part 5 Medical and surgical approach
11. Blood component therapy and massive transfusion
12. Hemostatic monitoring in obstetrics hemorrhage
13. Drugs used in massive bleeding

Part 6 Less invasive approach
14. Surgical interventions in obstetrics bleeding (compression suture and vascular ligature)
15. Intrauterine devices in obstetric hemorrhage

Part 7 Invasive approach
16. Damage control surgery in the obstetric patient
17. Consumption and dilutional coagulopathy in critically ill obstetric patient
18. Endocrine consequences of hemorrhagic shock: Sheehan’s syndrome

Über Autor(innen)

Montufar-Rueda, Carlos
Dr. Carlos Montufar-Rueda is the Head of the Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit of the "Dr. Arnulfo Arias M." Hospital Complex in Panama City, Panama. He is the creator and National Director of the Fellowship Program in Critical Care Obstetrics in Panama. He has written chapters in different texts on the subject of obstetric complications and obstetric intensive care. In addition, he has participated in clinical research studies, publishing papers in different International Medical Journals. Dr. Montufar-Rueda had an important participation in the creation and structuring of the Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics course, endorsed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is a member of SCCM, and is designated as the International Ambassador of Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM). Dr. Montufar-Rueda has participated in countless international conferences as an exhibitor from 1997 to date.

Hidalgo, Jorge
Dr. Jorge Hidalgo is a Professor of Critical Care and the Head of the Division of Critical Care at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize, Central America. He is the President Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. He has won several awards with the highest recognition and the Director of the very prestigious ACP Review Course hosted by the Paraguay Society of Internal Medicine. Due to his outstanding contribution to the Society of Critical Care Medicine he received the Presidential Citation Award. And Global Safar Award, becoming the First Latin American Intensivist to get this Nomination. He is involved in numerous congresses and a well-recognized international speaker.